Lianne Kolirin, CNN A former auctioneer has admitted he helped create and verify 25 fake Basquiat paintings that were seized from the Orlando Museum of Art last year, according to authorities. Michael Barzman, 45, admitted in court papers filed on Tuesday that he and another man — known only as J.F. — created the paintings
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE GANLEY and ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — France’s Constitutional Council on Friday approved an unpopular plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 in a victory for President Emmanuel Macron after months of mass protests that have damaged his leadership. The decision dismayed or enraged critics of the pension
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China’s defense minister will visit Moscow for meetings with his Russian counterpart and other military officials. The Defense Ministry said Friday that Gen. Li Shangfu would also visit Russia’s military academy during his April 16-19 visit. Li’s trip underscores China’s strengthening engagement with Russia, with which it has largely aligned its foreign
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — El jefe del gobierno tibetano en exilio defendió al dalái lama tras conocerse un vídeo en el que el líder espiritual besa a un niño en los labios y luego le pide que “chupe” su lengua. Las acciones del dalái lama fueron “inocentes” y malinterpretadas, dijo Penpa Tsering a periodistas
Continue ReadingMelissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — La familia de Connor Sturgeon, quien fue asesinado después de llevar a cabo un mortal tiroteo en el que mató a cinco personas este lunes en el Old National Bank en Louisville, Kentucky, planea someterlo a una prueba cerebral para detectar encefalopatía traumática crónica, comúnmente conocida como CTE, le dijeron
Continue ReadingROME (AP) — Rescue crews have recovered the bodies of three students training to be Alpine guides who were caught in an avalanche along Italy’s northwest border with France. The National Alpine Rescue Corps had suspended the search on Thursday due to bad weather after the avalanche in the Val di Rhemes, near the Gran
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — On a breezy spring day, scientists and conservationists methodically conducted experiments near 15 North Atlantic right whales that occasionally spouted and surfaced in a bay south of Boston. The pod of adults and calves is about 4% of the worldwide population of a marine mammal that
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after six weeks, according to a release from the governor’s office late Thursday night. The six-week ban would not go into effect until the state Supreme Court overturns its previous precedent on abortion. “We
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — El portavoz del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de China, Wang Wenbin, informó este viernes que el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Uruguay, Francisco Bustillo Bonasso, y el presidente de Gabón, Ali Bongo Ondimba, visitarán China la próxima semana. Wang también añadió que el canciller de Uruguay visitará China del 16 al
Continue ReadingCNN By Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN South African prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against Zolile Sekeleni, the father of the girlfriend of high-profile convicted murderer Thabo Bester, who is accused of escaping from a South African prison after faking his own death in a fire, officials told CNN Monday. Sekeleni’s daughter, Nandipha
Continue ReadingCNN By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN A giant snow corridor near the otherworldly Mount Tateyama, one of Japan’s three sacred mountains, is reopening to travelers on April 15. Called Yuki no Otani (or Great Valley of Snow), this 500-meter-long (1,620-foot-long) pathway cuts through towering snow walls that rise up to 20 meters (66 feet) at
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — China won’t sell weapons to either side in the war in Ukraine, the country’s foreign minister said Friday, responding to Western concerns that Beijing could provide military assistance to Russia. China has maintained that it is neutral in the conflict, while backing Russia politically, rhetorically and economically at a time when Western
Continue ReadingSofía Benavides (CNN Español) — Autoridades en México encontraron a más de 200 migrantes hacinados en la parte trasera de un camión que dejaron abandonado en una carretera de Veracruz, informó este jueves en un comunicado el Instituto Nacional de Migración mexicano (INM). El hallazgo se produjo este miércoles —poco antes de la medianoche— en
Continue ReadingBy AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) — An exchange of more than 800 prisoners by Yemen’s warring parties has begun. That’s according to an announcement on Friday by the International Committee for the Red Cross, which is overseeing the exchange. The three-day operations will see flights transport prisoners between Saudi
Continue ReadingBy FRANK JORDANS Associated Press LINGEN, Germany (AP) — Germany is shutting down its last three nuclear power plants on Saturday as part of an energy transition agreed to by successive governments. In many countries, the transition is away from fossil fuels, but Germany is set to close down carbon-free nuclear power as well over
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Gawon Bae, CNN Some South Korean youth are so cut off from the world, the government is offering to pay them to “re-enter society.” The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family announced this week that it will provide up to 650,000 Korean won (about $500) per month to isolated social recluses,
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN This is it. The media defamation trial of the century is on the precipice of kicking off in Wilmington, Delaware, in just days. Jury selection in Dominion Voting Systems’ monster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit took place all of Thursday, with 300 potential jurors being summoned to court. Good progress was made
Continue ReadingGonzalo Jimenez (CNN) — Tratar la pérdida de audición podría significar reducir el riesgo de demencia, según un nuevo estudio. La pérdida de audición puede aumentar el riesgo de padecer demencia, pero el uso de prótesis auditivas reduce el riesgo de forma similar al de las personas sin pérdida de audición, según el estudio publicado
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Kraken will be without forward André Burakovsky for the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs after he underwent surgery to address a lower-body injury. The Kraken announced Burakovsky’s status after a 3-1 loss to Vegas in their regular-season finale Thursday night. Burakovsky has not played since Feb. 7 against the
Continue ReadingCNN By Evan Perez, Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Kevin Liptak, CNN A member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard was arrested by the FBI on Thursday in connection with the leaking of classified documents that have been posted online, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday. The arrest of Jack Teixeira, 21, comes
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